De Tongue Me Not Poem by Stephanie Apila

Let me be free
Free to say what aches my tender heart
Tender towards the suffering and ruthless
Towards those with one side of a heart
Their hearts are without a soft part
Neither is there a warm part
Not even to the degree of malaria free blood.

Let me speak as i want
or my brain will soon explode
Explode from stowing data about villains
I shall say all i have kept down my heart
On behalf of those who have had to hide,
Hiding for a life time
Fearing to be punished for others' crimes.

For those who lost loved ones to rebel deeds,
Frustration swallowed them but i shall speak
Silence me not, not before the world
Not before a justice deserving world,
Not before i say what the slaughtered died for then
And not before the villain in the story is buried
DE tongue me not, till then.
STEPHANIE APILA